MARCONI'S MARRIAGE

Taranaki Daily News, 29 November 1926, Page 9

MARCONI'S MARRIAGE

SAID TO HAVE BEEN ANNULLED. . By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Received Nov. 28, 5.5 p.m. Paris, Nov. 27. Despite Signor Marconi’s denial of the annulment of his marriage with the Hon. Beatrice O’Brien, the Petit Journal’s Rome correspondent says that the Pope has assented to the annullment. Signor Mareoni was married in 1905 to the Hon. Beatrice O’Brien, daughter of laird Inehiquin. Their union was dissolved in 1924, whereupon the former Signora Marconi married tho Marquis di Montecorona. In April last year the English press published a story to the effect that the engagement was expected of Signor Marconi and Mias Elizabeth Narcissa Paynter, only daughter of Lieut.-Colonel Cambourne Haweis Paynter and Mrs. Paynter, of Boskenna, Cornwall. Signor Marconi was at that time in his yacht Elettra at Gilbraltar, and he was said to have been about to visit Colonel Paynter. The Daily Express of April 8,192 b, said: “All the friends of the Paynters and the country folk from Penzanee to land’s End have known about the regard which has obviously been growing up between Signor Marconi and Miss Paynter, and the expected engagement has been freely talked about. Signor Marconi has been frequently at Boskenna, the delightful centuries-old Cornish manor house, with its wooded estate running to the margin of the sea a short distance to Use west of Lamoma Cove, with its colony of artists. He was a visitor at Christmas, and with Miss Paynter attended a ball in Penzance. A wonderful wireless receiving eet, one of Signor Marconi’s latest inventions, known as the super-marine, is installed at Boskenna, and it is possible to talk from the yacht Elettra to the house. Signor Marconi and Colonel and Mrs. Paynter have been the closest friends for many years. Miss Paynter ha« known Signor Marconi since she was a child of 14.”

Subsequently the rumour of the pend lug engagement was denied.